One thing I have found myself explaining to US employers is how the Oz market is fundamentally perverted by rent-seeking oligopolies which leverage political clout to brutally squeeze both supply chain and customers. Fundamentally, our economy is broken and there is zero political will to fix it.

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

It is fucking hilarious that the Trump administration needed to tell Iranian officials to not pay attention to senile grandpa‘s unhinged posts because they are mainly for “domestic media purposes” and should be ignored. And yes, this is fact.

I really must stop judging historical figures on scuttlebutt and uninformed general opinion (and I don’t just mean Caligula). I recently read on the life of P.T. Barnum, who was a very complex man who did many things which others would be lauded endlessly for. It’s interesting to ponder his legacy.

It continues to amaze me how flexible the supposedly inflexible positions of the IP maximalists are. In less than three years they’ve gone from being totally inflexible on IP ownership, decrying any societial value, to stealing everyone’s work with some dubious claim of a common good. Absolute scum.

So FOI continues to work as designed, basically.

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Promises. My @smh cartoon.

Dolphin Point, NSW, an hour or so ago.

I’m not an Albanese supporter by any means, but it’s occasionally sensible to remember the past…

Well, there is something you don’t see every day! I suspect that the biting passenger’s reentry into Australia will be “challenging”. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Quote: The senior Liberal said that if the Liberal party fell into oblivion, “the only joy is that the National party would die before us”.

Can someone put the Liberal Party on suicide watch please?

Yet another failure of the pathetic Starmer.

AI agents of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your RBAC. www.instagram.com/reel/DYUgGGc...

"The majority of testimony boiled down to one pathetic theme: discomfort at the sight of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs in public, but zero discomfort at the rivers of blood Israel continues to spill in their name." @boganintel.bsky.social #FuckIsrael

1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

Ouch.

No issue with this at all.

Yesterday, Burrill Lake, NSW.

So ASIS is now advertising at the cinema. Yes, seriously, I just saw it. Truly one of the most bizarre advertisements I’ve ever seen. I wish they’d filmed it the Melbourne Sheraton. 😈

Omfg, the media twisting itself into knots trying to take something for Labor from Farrah. To all political “journalists”: there is nothing. It’s all about the LNP and them being past their use by date. That’s it. PHON will collapse, like everything that fraud Hanson has done for years. (More)

The Canvas hack is a big of a fiasco, isn’t it? While I generally find ransomware to be a bit passé, this one is curious.

Yes. Duh.

“Rocks in his head?” So he’s going to. Fantastic. Well done, Angus. Good job, you cretinous idiot.

Hey siri, show me a dumb bullshit artist who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else making shit up on the fly.

A very good post. It really highlights the relative simplicity of the changes needed, and it’s weird that these things sound so hard to many people. That’s brainwashing, to be blunt, by vested interests who don’t want change. I would go further and ban any buybacks, and make PE illegal.

The new Israeli resumption of the death penalty could see thousands of Palestinians, including children, executed. Hanging, electrocution and lethal injection have all been mentioned. No appeal allowed, and the executions happen on 90 days. Where the fuck are you, @albomp.bsky.social ? Your mates.

People power is pushing CommBank in the right direction. Join me and help get CommBank to end finance for fossil fuel expansion once and for all! It only takes a minute. www.marketforces.org.au/comparebanks

Reports that the Taser evaluation by NSW police failed to miss a Bluetooth security feature which is so absolutely basic for anyone with knowledge of the protocol makes me wonder at the competence of the evaluation, and whether it extends to the safety of the “non-lethal” function it claims.

I am becoming mildly obsessed with videos of technicians repairing damaged PCBs with microscopes, resin and tiny wires. It’s absolute magic, saves equipment from landfill, and just floors me. Example: www.instagram.com/reel/DXJzhVj...

Irony: Apple has never let an OnlyFans app in their online store, but the entire plot of the Apple-produced “Margo’s Got Money Problems” centres around a single mother using OnlyFans to save herself and her child from destitution. (The show is excellent, BTW. Brilliant cast.)

I think my robot vacuum cleaner went hooning. I came home to find this.

The most predictable outcome imaginable.

💯 brilliant read 👇 Australia - a risk adverse middle management nation, in politics, institutions, in the APS, in universities, in business

It’s also not like there are not multiple competitors to Palintir, many of them with functional corporate ethics and lacking the deep ties with the U.S. far right. The rush to purchase this deeply, fundamentally problematic company’s products highlights a serious issue in Australian government.

Halfway through “Hail Mary” last night, my partner turned to me and said “if the talking dog dies I’m gonna riot”. 🤭🤣🤣🤣

This is a scam. This is way below production cost, but also low enough for people to think it’s a bargain and snap it up without thought (aka. fear of missing out.) This company will collect hundreds of orders, then disappear without a trace. Reported to meta, expect no action. They’ll pop up again.

What the f***, beyond fraud, is the purpose of people posting AI-generated construction videos?

Enshitification, thy name is Google. I don’t use Google Maps, although I have it on my iPhone. It sends me a notification. I click on it and it takes me to the “where do you want to go” search. Nope. No fucking way, Google. You don’t get to use notifications to tell me to use your fucking app.

Computer retail in ACT is sad. Really, really sad. Of a list claiming to be the top 10 computer retailers in Canberra, four were Telstra stores, and one was Harvey Norman. I’m yet to find one which could even come close to something like JW in Sydney.

In my job, I dealt with military officers from multiple countries. Far and away, the very worst were ADF. It’s become a cesspool of deplorable troglodytes, with Jones being a prime example.

Utterly shameful failure to meet the moment from Labor - it's not populist it's popular and he's listening to his mining mates instead of the people.

Just when you thought Trump’s DoJ has reached rock bottom, you see them threaten 10 years in prison to Comey for a picture of seashells.

Yesterday on ABC's #Insiders, Liberal Party Leader Angus Taylor went full One Nation level racism claiming there's a risk of "bad people coming from bad countries" He also insulted Welcome to Country ceremonies. I'm not a Liberal Party voter but if I was, I would NOT be voting for this hate. #auspol